The UK commercial property market continued to experience weaker trends during the past month, with values down and total returns fairly neutral, says CBRE. The firm’s Monthly Index for March shows All Property total returns of +0.1% and a fall in ... Read more
The market for commercial property in the UK is more polarised now than ever, says Prupim. In its latest Real Estate Perspective report, the property fund manager says investors increasingly prefer prime assets with limited potential for growth over ... Read more
The Telegraph has noted the attractiveness of EC1 to a wave of new occupiers in the creative, media, technology and fashion sectors, previously located in the West End of London. Office space in Clerkenwell and offices in Farringdon are cheaper than ... Read more
Cushman & Wakefield has won the contract to provide property management services to The Crown Estate’s £1.5bn regional portfolio for the next five years. C&W will provide finance and business support as well as property and facilities ... Read more
Regeneration specialist St Modwen Properties today reported that its ongoing commercial property projects had continued to progress well. Schemes where contracts have been signed and construction is under way include an 85,000 sq ft retail property ... Read more
New research by Cushman & Wakefield into the UK market for shopping centre retail property shows that development has slowed to a crawl, with the total pipeline for this year expected to be just 31,500 sq m. This is the lowest annual total since ... Read more
Which parts of London will change the most over the next decade, and what will influence that change? New research from GVA and Centre for Cities has sought to answer these questions, considering the public policy drivers of property market change ... Read more
The final version of the National Planning Policy Framework was unveiled on Tuesday and the UK commercial property industry has been quick to respond. Savills says this version is the same in most respects as the one announced last year, which ... Read more
The Scottish government yesterday published the Unoccupied Properties Bill, which proposes to cut the empty property rate relief on some types of empty commercial property in Scotland to 10% from 50%. The move is intended to encourage property owners ... Read more
Knight Frank says the latest IPD All Property Capital Growth Index, which has again declined, suggests that the long-anticipated double-dip for capital values in commercial property has finally arrived, but that it is following a shallow trajectory. ... Read more
